OSI-DS 26 + 27 (Lightweight Directory Browsing Protocol)

[Steve Hardcastle-Kille <[e-mail]>]

Two new OSI-DS notes are available from UCL.


Steve



OSI-DS 26
osi-ds-26-00.txt
        Lightweight Directory Browsing Protocol	
	T. Howes
	S.E. Hardcastle-Kille
	W. Yeong
        February 1992
	Abstract:
The tremendous interest in X.500 technology in the Internet has lead to
efforts to reduce the high ``cost of entry'' associated with use of the
technology, such as the Directory Assistance Service [1] and DIXIE [2].
While efforts such as these have met with success, they have been solu-
tions based on particular implementations and as such have limited
applicability.  This document continues the efforts to define Directory
protocol alternatives but departs from previous efforts in that it cons-
ciously avoids dependence on particular implementations.

The protocol described in this document is the first of a series of pro-
tocols designed to provide access to the Directory while not incurring
the resource requirements of the Directory Access Protocol (DAP). This
protocol is specifically targeted at DUAs that provide simple read/write
interactive access to the Directory.

OSI-DS 27
osi-ds-27-00.txt
        The String Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes
	T. Howes
	S.E. Hardcastle-Kille
	W. Yeong
        February 1992
	Abstract:
The lightweight directory protocols require that the contents of Attri-
buteValue fields in protocol elements be octet strings.  This document
defines the requirements that must be satisfied by encoding rules used
to render Directory attribute syntaxes into a form suitable for use in
the lightweight directory protocols, then goes on to define the encoding
rules for the standard set of attribute syntaxes defined in [1,2] and
[3].




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